Motivational Quotes

Planning

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

- Nelson, Paula

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Confucius

2.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

3.

If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

4.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

5.

The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be carried out...

American Management

6.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Lakein, Alan

7.

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

8.

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Knox, Chuck

9.

Most people are content to let perfect days happen at random rather than PLAN for them.

10.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

11.

A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

12.

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Baruch, Bernard M.

14.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Caine, Mark

15.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

16.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

17.

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Collier, Robert

18.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

It's never too late to start planning for the future.

20.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Henry, Patrick

21.

When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.

Proverb, Japanese

22.

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

Meyer, Paul J.

23.

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

24.

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

25.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

26.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Napoleon Hill

27.

The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Curtis, Donald

28.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

McLaughlin, Mignon

29.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

30.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

32.

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

33.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

Daniel H. Burnham

34.

If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.

Mikita, Stan

35.

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

36.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

37.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

38.

With a definite, step-by-step plan -- ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track

Reed, Scott

39.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

40.

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

41.

A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.